vodka can't build

Started by KorpiklaaniVodka January 13th, 2016 11:34 AM
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KorpiklaaniVodka

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Posted September 26th, 2016
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I wanna ask you guys, what are you better at? Teambuilding, or actual gameplay?

As for me, personally I think I battle decently, not amazing, but very well. However, my problem is teambuilding. I have a ton of bad matchups just because I'm an idiot and can't think up teams and in DA's terms I need to quit Pokemon rofl.

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Here's the battle I just had against Chase. I won it, but I got reminded once again how much I suck at teambuilding, I thinked up this team in 2 minutes or something before battling him. Notice how I needed good predictions and a Scald burn to get the momentum.
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Hikamaru

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I'm probably better at the gameplay as opposed to the team building. It would take me so long to learn the metagame and find the best cores and partnerships to use.
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Nah

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I'm not sure really. I'm kiiiiiiinda leaning towards in-battle execution but really I don't think I'm very good at either one.

How long do you normally take when building a team though? You said you made that team like 2 minutes before, and yeah, almost no one makes a good team in a few minutes. But if you spent more time on it, how much better do you think it would've been?
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Megan

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I'm pretty terrible at executing strategies in battle, that much I'm aware. In terms of Teambuilding I usually throw a team together, utilizing cores that have decent synergy, but mostly end up with the problem that I can't really use them right in battle. On the other hand I can spend like weeks working on one team only to end up with the feeling that I'll never be able to finish it, because I tend to overthink things quite a bit. {XD}
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Aurora

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Posted September 10th, 2019
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I think I'm a reasonable teambuilder. I can slap fairly decent teams together in 5-10 minutes for tiers like RU because I've been playing it for long enough that I can quickly ascertain 'what goes with what' and what I'm weak to. I usually either go for broke or ask friends for help with other tiers.

I am probably slightly worse at battling because I tend to make stupid plays at the worst possible times when under pressure. However, I am good at predicting what the opponent will do and acting accordingly. It's all relative to my experience at different metagames, though; I am much better at RU than, say, Ubers because I have been playing it for a lot longer.

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